New PC
I hadn't built a PC in a while. The last one I put together in 2007 was a rather expensive beast (at around $1600) and consisted of 2 x Athlon FX-74 on a ASUS L1N64-SLI WS, GeForce 8800GTX (which was a $600 space heater), 8GB RAM, 4 x 300GB drives later upgraded to 4 x 1TB drives (RAID1), and a SoundBlaster X-Fi all in a solid Lian Li full tower with 12 drive bays. The unfortunate part is that Athlon FX (based on the Opteron) is deprecated.
This time around I bought an eMachines ET1161-05, on TigerDirect for $200 two weeks ago or so.
I replaced the weak sauce single core Athlon LE-1620 with a dual core Athlon X2 5000+ I had laying around, disabled the onboard GeForce 6150SE and bought a $100 GeForce 9800 GT, replaced the slow 160GB hard drive with two of my 300GB drives in RAID1, replaced the 2GB RAM with 4GB I had laying around, replaced the 215W power supply with a 450W Antec power supply, took out the modem PCI card and replaced that with a Linksys wireless card. Ahem, so I guess what's left is the original case, motherboard, and DVD drive.
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